Experiments with ruby-processing (processing-2.2.1) and JRubyArt for processing-3.0

Thursday 14 March 2013

Translating a Word counting sketch to ruby-processing

Here is a sketch that was based on a prototype by Daniel Schiffman to illustrate the use of the processing HashInt class, I can't see the HashInt class catching on really, particularly not for rubyists where alternative options abound. Anyway I liked the sketch and I think sometimes less is more, in later versions Schiffman sorts the words according to their frequency (to show off IntClass functionality), however to my mind it spoils the sketch!
class Word
  # A helper to keep track of word frequency.
  attr_accessor :word
  attr_reader :count
  def initialize word
    @word = word
    @count = 1
  end

  def increment
    @count += 1
  end
end

################################
# This sketch is translated from a vanilla processing sketch by Daniel Schiffman
# that was designed to demonstrate the use IntHash class in vanilla processing.
# Similar results can easily be obtained using more idiomatic ruby. Here IntHash 
# has been replaced by a String => Word hash (as used in a Schiffman prototype). 
# Read about concordance here:-
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordance_(publishing)
################################

attr_reader :concordance, :lines, :tokens, :counter

def setup
  size 640, 360
  @counter = 0
  @concordance = {}
  # Open a file, read its contents, and 'scan' for words using a regex.
  # Include words with apostrophe eg Harker's (alt. source 'hamlet.txt')
  @tokens = File.read(data_path("dracula.txt")).scan(/[\w'-]+/)
  text_font(create_font("Georgia", 24))
end

def draw
  background 51
  fill 255
  s = (tokens[counter] == "I")? tokens[counter] : tokens[counter].downcase
  @counter = (counter + 1) % tokens.length
  if (concordance.has_key?(s))
    # Get the word object and increase the count
    # We access objects from a Hash via its key, the String
    w = concordance[s]
    w.increment    # increment word count
  else
    # Otherwise make a new Word instance and add it to 
    # the Hash using the word String as the key
    concordance[s] = Word.new(s)
  end

  # x and y will be used to locate each word
  x = 0
  y = height - 10

  # Look at each word
  concordance.values.each do |w|
    # Only display words that appear 3 times
    if (w.count > 3)  # access word count
      # The size is the count
      fsize = constrain(w.count, 0, 100)
      text_size(fsize)
      text(w.word, x, y)
      # Move along the x-axis
      x += text_width(w.word) + 1
    end

    # If x gets to the end, move y
    # If y == 0 we are done
    if (y == 0)
      no_loop
    else
      if (x > width)
        x = 0
        y = (y < 0)? 0 : y - 100
      end
    end
  end
end

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I have developed JRubyArt and propane new versions of ruby-processing for JRuby-9.1.5.0 and processing-3.2.2